Re: need advice on remote installation of Debian
Thanks Rob for the advice but we need redundancy and permanent
solution. we can not always ship pre-installed harddrive to US it will
take days and we can not bear downtime. anyways for us we are right
now planning to buy asus boards with Asus-iKVM module for remote
control the console even with that i can make changes in BIOS of the
hardware it is like i am managing the hardware virtually from there.
thanks anyways i appreciate your advice :)
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Rob Owens <rowens@ptd.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 03:10:40PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> i am living in a remote country and our main branch is in US where
>> hosting is very expensive. it is almost costing us $4000K for a kind
>> of setup we need therefore being a small company we decided to build
>> our own hosting platform for our virtualized environment just for
>> demoing our application to our customers and server will be reside in
>> US office. now what is coming in my head is how will i install debian
>> remotely.
>>
>>
>> Since we have 1 technical resource their with almost no Linux
>> experience so i think for just installing Debian squeeze i had to
>> spoon feed him from very basic which i don't want.
>>
>> an idea comes in my head and how practical is it. that is where i
>> need your advice.
>>
>> i am planning to create a bootable USB stick from Debian squeeze and
>> then i will take the backup and send it to US office where he (our
>> tech guy) just has to use clonzilla or any other image software to
>> restore that data on another same space USB. and then has to boot the
>> server from it. after all that i will definitly get (pre-configured)
>> ssh console. i will further setup the local hard drives by he help of
>> consoles.
>>
>> does it sound good. or i would face any issue in long term. if you
>> think it is fine. then my question is how. i never done this before
>> and easy to implement advice/suggestion will be highly appreciated if
>> any.
>>
> Why not just configure a Debian system at your location, and then ship
> the hard drive to be installed in the system at the remote location.
> This typically works just fine, with the worst problems being things
> like new names for your network device and cdrom (eth0 becomes eth1,
> /dev/cdrom becomes /dev/cdrom2). But even that is preventable by
> deleting certain files in /dev/udev/rules.d.
>
> -Rob
>
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